Why Medappcare ?

The mobile health sector has an undeniable potential in reducing public health costs and helping people live healthier lives, but it is plethoric and unorganized. Medappcare helps maximize the benefits of mobile health by providing a rigorous selection of mobile health applications.

More than 97000 mobile health apps

The mobile health sector is booming with a fast growing number of mHealth apps. Currently there are 97,000 mHealth applications in major app stores. (Researchtoguidance, Mars 13)

Protection of personal data

Users are increasingly worried about how their private health data is being used by mobile apps. Indeed, 40% of paid health apps have no privacy policy and 30% send private data to third parties without informing the user. (Source : California Consumer Protection Foundation, Jul 13)

Medical Quality

Apps are not necessarily reviewed and approved by health professionals before being put on an app store. Thus these apps can be non conform to official recommendations, based on medical myths which can represent a real danger to users.

Reduction healthcare costs

Improving patient monitoring, access to care at home and in rural areas, avoid unnecessary consultation, develop a culture of preventive healthcare: these are the main health benefits for users which will help save up to 99 billion euros per year by 2017 in Europe. (PwC, Sept 13)

Security

Mobile apps are not necessarily free of technical flaws such as viruses or malware. Apps do not always have a secure network to exchange data and information. 90% of mobile health apps do not secure their exchanges of data... (California Consumer Protection Foundation, Jul 13)

Emerging regulation

Mobile health is a growing and attractive market, but it does not a clear and adapted regulation yet. Medappcare participates in the discussions surrounding regulation and wishes to provide the appropriate solutions to the different challenges of this new market.

Our work

Evaluating

We evaluate apps in order to improve their quality and we reference them in our mobile app database in order to have them recommended by our prescribers.